Sat Jan 26, 2013 at 03:08:11 AM EST

Yours truly here is hopelessly a night owl.
Many reasons for why that's developed over the years but it's just who I am .

This is a weird topic for my first ever diary here at the Moose.
As I was sitting at the desk I began to wonder just how many meese/meeses? are night owls too.

And more importantly are any of you interested in an open thread, late night hang out, sort of thingy? We tried one for awhile over at the orange, "WAYS-Why Aren't You Sleeping?" When I say we it ended up being me, jlms_qkw and Frugal Granny most nights with few pop-ins.

Maybe a late-late version of overnight news. Like a "while you were sleeping thing" we could all contribute to so that those early risers have a point of reference to catch up over their morning brew and say hey to us who were creeping 'round making tracks while everyone else was sleeping.

And then there are our friends across the pond. They're up and about around by now. Would some fresh stuff to hold you folks over until morning when Moose Check-In and F-Bomb appears be of interest?

If you're wondering whether the Moose has folks with "sleep issues," you should read this old diary I wrote with Kysen's help. I think (though I could be mistaken) that we are still reigning King and Queen of sleep problems around here. But we're not the only ones up late by any means.

Hm, well, I sleep a lot more nowadays than I did when I wrote that diary. Did a sleep study finally, and apparently I have some... er, neurological problems. Heh. But I'm still around at night a lot!

I'd love a nightly open thread, whatever the name!

Come to me in my dreams, and then
By day I shall be well again!
For so the night will more than pay
The hopeless longing of the day.

I am usually up into the wee hours. I see that Ricki posted a link to her Insomnia diary...and nothing much has changed for me since it was written. I do sleep a BIT more now in my older years than in my younger (a couple/few hours more when spread over a week or so)...but, yah, chronic night owl here.

Peter and I have chatted off and on for years in the wee morning hours. He because of location, me because of not yet having hit the sack. So, I know that he is oft time lurking about the intertubes when most Americans are still counting sheep.

I think a Late Night Open Thread would do fine, especially if used as a place to drop 'late night news' that most will not discover until roosters begin to crow in anticipation of the dawn.

I have been trying to entice a few more blogging peeps here but they noticed (I tried to distract them but they are pretty smart!) that it is not very lively here at night. At the GOS you can almost always find an old fight open thread or a diary that has a few orange names popping up. I usually blog before I start work (when I have brain cells) ... some people blog after they work or late in the evening after kids are in bed. I go to bed before my daughter does, most nights.

I like the idea of a news open thread. When I wake up, I run through the news and to read what other moose have been reading would be an excellent way to start the morning.

Or, like yesterday, when I woke up at 3am and couldn't go back to sleep, I rolled out the morning check-in a little early and it scared everyone. ;)

I know I'm ill - or really anxious - that's my pathology: heart beating startled wakefulness roun 4 am. Having had kids I've got lots of personal empirical on this: four hours of sleep from 4 to 8 is somehow much more refreshing than four hours from midnight to 4 a.m.

Usually in bed by midnight but I do have occasional sleepless nights where I get tired of reading in bed and feel like there's nothing else to do. Would be fun to be able to connect with other folks who are up late!

There are, in every age, new errors to be rectified, and new prejudices to be opposed. ~Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)

rarely in bed before 1:00 am most of the time, and even then i have to drag myself there. it's not that i can't sleep (though that is sometimes the case), but usually that i just prefer not to. if sleep weren't required, i'd avoid it almost entirely.